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By the time he retired in 1942, John Murdoch had become a legend in Wabasha County, the Third Judicial District, and the state bar. He had been, his eulogist recalled years later, one of "The Big Three" of the county trial bar during the first third or so of the last century, the others being James ...

John ("Mac") McGovern arrived in Wabasha in 1881 with a law degree from the law department of Iowa State. He was twenty-one years old. For almost the next quarter-century, he practiced law, published a local newspaper, befriended many, and ran for public office in Wabasha. He died on February 5, 19...

In the early 1950s, a decade into retirement, John Murdoch looked back on his long career at the bar--49 years--and decided to write his recollections of several cases that had historical importance or interest. One was a trial of two Wabasha doctors for attempted murder. It was the culmination of ...

On May 21, 1962, a memorial proceeding was held in Wabasha County District Court in honor of John W. Murdoch, who had died on April 11, at age ninety-two. Lawrence R. Lunde, a Lake City lawyer who knew Murdoch very well, delivered a eulogy that included the following:

Admitted to the bar in 1927, shortly after graduating from the St. Paul College of Law, Harold J. Alton practiced less than ten years before he died in Wabasha after a brief illness. At that time, he was city attorney and partner of John Murdoch, a pillar of the bar. Several months later, a commit...

Samuel Lewis Campbell, a native New Yorker, arrived in Minnesota Territory in 1855, and was admitted to the bar the next year. He then opened an office in Wabasha and practiced law there for the next half century. He died on January 17, 1910, at age eighty-five. On November 10, 1910, a committee of...

Although he had an established law practice in Cooperstown, New York, and had even served a term as county judge, E. N. Card, at age forty-five, moved to Lake City in 1873, and began practicing law. After many years, he moved to St. Paul to practice before retiring. He died in Chicago in the summe...

At a memorial service for James A. Carley, who died on May 14, 1952, at age eighty-three, Martin Healy, a friend and fellow member of the Wabasha County bar, remarked that he was "destined for a long public life." In a profession not known for understatements, this certainly was one. By rough calcu...

John R. Foley was the patriarch of a legal-political dynasty in Wabasha County that has lasted most of the last century. He arrived in Wabasha in 1915 with his bride, sired nine children, several of whom became lawyers, including Judge Daniel F. Foley. He was a formidable trial lawyer who was one...

Allen J. Greer, who practiced law in Lake City for a quarter-century and served in the state legislature from 1891 to 1902, died in California on March 14, 1905, at age fifty. Two months later, a committee of the Wabasha County Bar presented a memorial to him in district court.
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After he was discharged from the Union Army in 1865, Wesley Kinney began practicing law in Mazeppa, Wabasha County. The next year he moved to Lake City, where he was city attorney for thirty-three years. With John N. Murdoch and a few others, he founded the county bar. He died on March 17, 1926, ...

After graduating the University of Minnesota Law School in 1913, Hugh Lothrop practiced briefly in Zumbrota and Mazeppa. In 1916 he became a partner of John W. Murdoch in Wabasha, where they practiced as Murdoch & Lothrop until May 29, 1931, when he died at age forty-two. Six months later, the Wab...

After teaching school for most of the 1890s, Michael Marx attended the University of Minnesota College of Law, graduating in 1898. He soon found his way home -- to Wabasha County -- where he served as attorney for the village of Mazeppa, the city of Wabasha and county attorney. After his death in ...

On April 23, 1861, one month and one week after he turned nineteen, John Mullin enlisted in the Union Army. He served during the entire war. Soon after it ended he came to Minnesota, where he was employed in a variety of business enterprises. For reasons long forgotten, he decided to become a lawy...

John Murdoch began practicing law in Wabasha in 1857. He was the first city attorney, served on the school board, and decades later wrote editorials for the local newspaper. He helped found the Republican party in Minnesota, and was an elector for the Lincoln-Johnson ticket in 1864.

James Phillips was awarded a B. A. from the University of Minnesota in 1894, and began teaching in the Alexandria school system. But not for long: the law called and he enrolled in the University Law School, receiving a LL.B. in 1901. He returned to his hometown, Lake City, where he practiced law a...

The first of the following two articles on the legal history of Wabasha County was published in 1884 in a history of the county. Entitled "Bench and Bar," it reviews early terms of the district courts, recounts amusing anecdotes about Alexis Bailly and J. A. Criswell, the county's first and second j...